Arcadia in Istanbul Kadir Has University KDAH CCCO 350 Istanbul: City of Contrasts and Coexistence Credits: 4 Pre-requisites: None. Course Description The course is designed to provide an overview of history and culture in Istanbul and Turkey, through the lens of interactions between different cultures, religions and ethnicities as they are manifested in the city. Topics will range from history, culture, economics, immigration, religious issues, ethnic conflicts and urban development. Upon completion of the course, the students will have acquired a better understanding and appreciation of not only the city of Istanbul but the role that its people played throughout the region over a period of millennia. During the course, the students will be exposed to the different layers of the city and its people, effectively using the city as a classroom. Learning Outcomes Upon completion of the course students will have: • A better understanding and appreciation of not only the city of Istanbul but the role that its people played throughout the region over a period of millennia. • Improved observation skills for living in a different culture with changing circumstances. • Competency in Turkish language and culture. • Knowledge and understanding of the dynamics of interactions, contrasts and the coexistence of the inhabitants of Istanbul and Turkey. • Experience of informed engagement with locals achieved by using their language skills and cultural knowledge. • The ability to reflect upon their own experiences within the complex context of constructs and realities within Istanbul and Turkey. • A strong awareness of the comparisons between the people and the physical space of Istanbul, and that of Anatolia and the rest of Turkey, in terms of contrasts and coexistence in Turkey. Course Requirements 1. Required Reading Students will receive a reader and will be expected to do the required readings before each class as listed in the syllabus below. • Freely, John and Sumner-Boyd, Hillary, Strolling Through Istanbul: A Guide to the City 2009, Tauris Parke Paperbacks. 2. Recommended Reading Freely, John, Istanbul: The Imperial City, 1998, Penguin Books, London, UK.de Berniere, Louis, Birds Without Wings, 2004, Random House, New York, NY.uban, Dogan, Ottoman Architecture, 2010, Antique Collectors’ Club Ltd. Suffolk, UK. • Barks, Coleman, Rumi: The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing, 2003, Harper Collins, New York, NY. Arcadia in Istanbul KDAH MSIB 350 3. Tests and Papers Mid-term Exam, Final Exam, Group Project and Oral Presentation. A group project, submitted both as an essay and an audiovisual presentation in class, will allow students to investigate in depth a route in Istanbul of their choosing. Students will chart the route using a tool like GoogleMaps and investigate the history, culture and people living on that route, and show their interaction on that route. Students are required to write a 5-10 page essay and develop an audiovisual presentation including photographs, movies, sounds etc, outlining their experiences travelling their chosen route. 4. Grading Criteria • Turkish Language and Culture: Midterm (10%) and Final(20%) • Istanbul: Midterm (10%), Final(20%) and Group Project (30%) • Participation (10%) Course Outline Schedule of Classes and Reading Materials Week 1: Intensive Turkish Language (15 hrs) Week 2: Introduction to the course (2 hrs) Istanbul: Bridge between East and West Reading: • Yanık, Lerna K., The Metamorphosis of Metaphors of Vision: “Bridging” Turkey's Location, Role and Identity After the End of the Cold War, 2009, Geopolitics, 14(3), pp531-549 Turkish Language (1 hr) Week 3: Istanbul, capital of two empires. (2 hrs) Field Study to the Spice Bazaar area of Istanbul Reading: • Casale, Giancarlo, The Ottoman Administration of the Spice Trade in the Sixteenth-century Red Sea and Persian Gulf, Journal of the Economic & Social History of the Orient, Jun 2006, Vol. 49 Issue 2, p170-198. Turkish Language (1 hr) Week 4: Islam in Istanbul (2 hrs) Meet at Eminonu (in front of New Mosque): Field Study to Sultanahmet Square (Hippodrome) Reading: • Inancik, Halil, İstanbul: An Islamic City, Journal of Academic Studies, 12 (47/48) p1-24. Turkish Language (1hr) 2 Arcadia in Istanbul KDAH MSIB 350 Week 5: Western Anatolia: Greeks and Romans Field Study to Ephesus Reading: • Spencer, Scott, A Christian Shrine in a Muslim Land New York Times, September 3, 2006. • Frantz, Douglas, Sirince Journal; Will Success Spoil a Historic Village? New York Times, July 14, 2001. Turkish Language (1 hr) Week 6: Ethnic and Religious Minorities (Muslim) in Turkey (2 hrs) Zeyrek Neighbourhood. Reading: • Gusten, Susanne, Turkey's Elephant in the Room: Religious Freedom, New York Times, September 28, 2011. • Grigoriadis, Ioannis N., Political Participation of Turkey’s Kurds and Alevis: A Challenge for Turkey’s Democratic Consolidation Journal of Southeast European & Black Sea Studies, Dec. 2006, Vol. 6 Issue 4, p445-461. Turkish Language (1 hr) Week 7: Religious Holiday Week 8: Ethnic and Religious Minorities (Non-Muslim) in Turkey (2 hrs) Greek Patriarchy in Fener. Reading: • Papayianni, Aphrodite, He Polis healo: The Fall of Constantinople in 1453 in Post-Byzantine Popular, Al-Masaq: Islam & the Medieval Mediterranean, Apr. 2010, Vol. 22 Issue 1, p27-44. Turkish Language (1 hr) Week 9: Istanbul as a meeting place for East and West (2 hrs) Aksaray district: Field Study to Beyazit Square Reading: • Brink-Danan, Marcy, Dangerous Cosmopolitanism: Erasing Difference in Istanbul, Anthropological Quarterly, Spring 2011, Vol. 84 Issue 2, p439-473. Turkish Language (1 hr) 3 Arcadia in Istanbul KDAH MSIB 350 Week 10: Pera: Europe in Istanbul (2 hrs) Karakoy: Field Study to Galata Tower Reading: • Yumul, Arus, ‘‘A Prostitute Lodging in the Bosom of Turkishness’’: Istanbul’s Pera and its Representation, Journal of Intercultural Studies, Vol. 30, No. 1, February 2009, pp.57-72. Turkish Language (1 hr) Week 11: The Asian Side of Turkey: Anatolia Field Study to Cappadocia Reading: • Kamm, Henry, Cappodocia's Lunar Landscape, New York Times October 27, 1985. Turkish Language (1 hr) Week 12: Istanbul: The business center (2 hrs) Levent business District Reading: Akyüz, Abdullah, Political Economy of Turkey: In Search of • Stability amid Domestic and Global Crises, Brookings Institute, US – Europe Analysis Series, March 16, 2009. http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Files/rc/papers/2009/03_turkey_ak yuz/03_turkey_akyuz.pdf Turkish Language (1 hr) Week 13: Anatolian Expansion of Istanbul (2 hrs) Soganlik neighborhood on the Asian side. Reading: • Ayata, Sencer, Migrants and Changing Urban Periphery: Social Relations, Cultural Diversity and the Public Space in Istanbul’s New Neighbourhoods, International Migration, 2008, 46(3), p. 27-64 Turkish Language (2 hrs) Week 14: In-class Presentations of Group Project (2 hrs) Turkish Language (1 hr) Week 15: Final Exam: Istanbul (2hrs) Final Exam: Turkish (1 hr) Policies The course follows Arcadia University’s policies on attendance and plagiarism (see Student Handbook and Academic Contract). 4 .